Profile

London-based artist Leigh Glover is a portraitist and landscape painter working primarily in oils but also in watercolour and pencil.  He completed a Diploma of ortrait Painting at Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London and in 2007 left there with the Portrait Diploma Prize.  Feedback from the panel of assessors that included external artists as well as internal tutors noted him as a "painterly painter" with a creative freedom in his work. 

The following year one of his oil portraits was selected for the Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhbition in the Mall Galleries, London.  This painting ("Sonya" - see in Portraits) won further recognition as a finalist in the Windsor & Newton sponsored "Young Artist" competition.

One of his works was shown again in the Mall Galleries when in 2009 his pencil portrait of Scroobius Pip, was selected by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition.

After graduating from Oxford Brookes university with an honours degree in cartography, Leigh was awarded a runner-up prize for an oil-on-canvas landscape in the Society of All Artists 2005 Young Artist of the Year nationwide competition.

 

Qualifications

2007

Diploma in Portrait Painting

Heatherley’s School of Fine Art, London

2002

BSc (Hons) Mapping & Cartography

Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

Awards

2008

Windsor and Newton, Young Artist, Finalist

Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London

 

2007       

Portrait Diploma Prize

Heatherley’s School of Fine Art, London

 

2005

Young Artist of the Year,

Runner up

Society of All Artists

Exhibitions

Dec 2009

Gallery SW3, Christmas Show

Kings Rd., London

 

Dec 2009

Queens Elms Artists, Christmas Show

 

Queens Elms, Fulham Rd., London

Nov 2009

The Windsor Contemporary Art Fair

Windsor race course, Windsor

 

2009

The Untitled Artist Fair

The Chelsea Town Hall, London

 

2009

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters

 

Mall Galleries, The Mall, London

2009

Friends of Holland Park

 

The Orangery, Holland Park, London

2008

The Painted Face

 

Orleans House Gallery, London

2008

A-Frame Gallery, Brecon

Brecon, Wales

2007

SaLon Art Fair 2007

SaLon Gallery, London

 

2007

Royal Institute of Oil Painters

Mall Galleries, The Mall, London

 

2007

Heatherley’s Show

Heatherley’s School of Fine Art, London

 

2006

Oakham Galleries Stand

Affordable Art Fair, London